Monday, October 28, 2013

Season 3 Episode 14

We have lots of evidence that man and dinosaurs have always lived together. In this week’s Creation Today Show,
Paul and Eric take the Bible, and use it as their foundation to
interpret the dinosaur evidence. They also look at how evolutionary
presuppositions are seen in media portrayals of dinosaurs and show how
language and imagination constitute the only “evidence” that
evolutionists have to offer.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Famous Medical Breakthroughs - The Christian Pioneers

Markus Schichtel
Dr Markus Schichtel looks at the lives and work of
three famous scientists whose discoveries transformed medical practice. Joseph
Lister with antiseptic techniques, James Clerk Maxwell with electrical
instruments and James Young Simson an obstetrician and pioneer in the field of
anaesthetics.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Taking the Dinosaurs Back – Season 3 Episode 13

Two hundred
years ago, scientists began discovering and digging up fossilized bones
of large extinct creatures. In this week’s Creation Today Show, Paul and
Eric show that these creatures were, quite correctly, labeled as
dragons, even in scientific literature, and even after the word dinosaur
had been coined. As Paul and Eric discuss the history of the discovery
of dinosaur fossils, we see that God’s Word accurately records
references to such creatures, because God made them along with the other
animals in the beginning!

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

HAS DAWKINS OVERREACHED? COULD HIS CHALLENGE BE A HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR CHRISTIANS?

History may show that Dawkins has done the church a favour, by waking it out of its complacency on the creation/evolution issue. By focusing the battle right at the foundations, and by putting all the evidence he can muster on display, he has provided a chance for Christians to see via this response that they do not have to keep retreating on this issue, for fear of being seen to contradict ‘the facts of science’…

The Greatest Hoax on Earth? meets Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth head-on. Dr Sarfati firmly and comprehensively answers Dawkins’ challenge, chapter after chapter, covering a vast range of disciplines in his trademark crisp, clear style. He convincingly shows, for those with ears to hear, that to believe the Bible’s account of Creation/Fall/Redemption straightforwardly not only does not commit intellectual suicide, it is if anything the intellectually superior position.
In the process, he also ably exposes the types of deceitful tactics utilized in many anti-creation arguments. (Hence the ‘hoax’ in the Sarfati book’s title; CMI of course does not claim that people teach and promote evolution while disbelieving it.)

To the Christian we say—if your creationist fare has been by people with questionable qualifications and a flair for self-promotion using dubious arguments, you will find this book in another league altogether. It is written by arguably the finest mind in creation/evolution and Bible-science apologetics today—backed by a superb team of qualified and experienced colleagues.

To the not-yet-believer we say—if you have been exposed to the sorts of arguments that Dawkins musters, you owe it to yourself to read this book (not distorted representations of its contents).

Read it—give it away in bulk—spread this link—help fight the battle where it rages the fiercest.

Friday, October 18, 2013

The Origin of Life, Part 4 – Season 3 Episode 12

Join Eric Hovind and Paul Taylor for the last episode of this four-part series discussing the theories of how life began. Most scientists agree on the description and definition of life, but clash head-on when discussing origin of life. Today, Eric and Paul present life’s true origin from a biblical perspective!

Gino began by reading the
passage from Luke 25, which records the encounter of the resurrected Christ with
two disciples on the road to Emmaus, who at first did not recognize Him. The
men were downcast, because they had hoped that Jesus was going to redeem
Israel, but the rulers crucified Him. But on the third day, the women had found
an empty tomb and saw an angel, who testified that He was alive!Then
Jesus reproved them, saying "O foolish ones, you slow of heart to believe
in all that the prophets have spoken, about how it was necessary that the Christ
should suffer these things before entering into his glory.” Then (v.27), beginning
at Moses and the prophets, He “expounded,” [interpreting] to them in all the
Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Jesus was proving from the Scripture
that He was alive. It is so important, not only that we read it and reflect on
it, but also that we understand it's true meaning. The disciples marveled at how
their hearts burned as He led them in this Bible study, and its truth of the Resurrection:
our eternal hope, the sustaining principle upon which we lean in times of trial,
disease, grief and heartbreak. Gino expressed excitement in contemplating what
it would be like to be at that place and that time, and Jesus shows up and
confirms that the promises in the Bible are true! In v. 41, we see how the
apostles could not contain their joy, when they discovered that Jesus was unmistakably
alive, and again He “opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.” The verb
translated “expounded”, or “explained” is from the Greek, hermeneuo, which means
to “explain the meaning.” Theologians use the word hermeneutics to describe the
art and science of biblical interpretation. Some impose their own meaning on the
text (eisegesis), and some people take meaning from the text (exegesis). How do
we determine the true meaning of the Biblical text? That is a debate, between
two major views:

A. The traditional view, which claims
that the key to understanding any literature is to assume that the author determines
the meaning and the reader's task is to discover the author’s meaning. The
Bible teaches that God the Holy Spirit inspired the writers of Scripture, who
use their own language in a historical setting in order to convey meaning. So
the interpreter is to come to a clear understanding of the writer’s meaning. In
order to do that, there is a prerequisite: A necessity to love the Truth. The
fact is, the Holy Spirit in you is bearing witness to the meaning. The hearts
of the two disciples began to burn within them, because they loved the Truth. What
do people do when they don't honor or welcome the Truth? They deny it!
Don't ever let a person say, “Look, talk to me about God, talk to me about life
and death, but don't use the Bible.” It is sharper than any two-edged sword.
The enemies of the Bible would like to disarm you and take away perhaps your
most important tool, which is the Revelation of Truth.

B. The contemporary view. In
this view, the critics maintain that it's the reader, not the author that

determines the meaning. They
argue that meaning only applies as the reader interacts with the text, which excludes
the author. Jesus cites the Torah and Prophets as the credible source for the
information concerning the identity and mission of the Messiah. He takes
Genesis, Torah and the full, collective revelation of God, and says, “This is
the source of information about me.” To bring this point home, Gino gave us a
one-phrase summary of all the books of the OT, which establishes how they each
were a testimonial to the coming Christ. (To view this list, please refer to
the appendix on our website.)

If the Bible isn't true in the
beginning, how in the world can you believe it is true in the end? The Bible
can never mean what it never meant. It's got to have a plan, a purpose and a message.
It says God created the heaven and the earth. Therefore, it can't mean He
didn't create the heavens and the earth. There is a method called the allegorical
method--the idea of bringing novel meaning to the text by spiritualizing, and
looking for secret, hidden meanings, even when the meaning is clearly revealed
by the context of the Scripture. It was dark, it was treacherous, and it is
evil. To the person who loves allegory, Jesus can be seen as teaching billions
and billions of years, or even New Age. But remember, you have to bring that to
the text, you can't derive it from the text. The Bible has an amazingly, clear,
consistent message in spite of the long and destructive history of reading
things into the Bible that don't belong there. The Golden Rule of Bible Interpretation
is: “If the plain sense makes common sense, seek no other sense.” Gino went
through a list of 15 principles we can apply for proper interpretation; for
example: Interpret each individual verse with regard to the context, evaluating
the unclear by what is clear. (See list below)

So when you open up your
Bible, be seekers of Truth, and allow the Bible and the Holy Spirit to do what
the Bible was intended to do. God says what He means, and means what He says.

1. Get absolutely right with
God yourself by the absolute
surrender of your will to
Him.
2. Be determined to find out
just what God intended to
teach and not what you wish
Him to teach.
3. Get the most accurate
text.
4. Find the most exact and
literal meaning of the text.
5. Note the exact force of
each word used.
6. Interpret the words used
in any verse according to Bible
usage.
7. Interpret the words of each
author in the Bible with a
regard to the particular
usage of that author.
8. Interpret individual
verses with a regard to the context.
9. Interpret individual
passages in the light of parallel or
related passages.
10. Interpret obscure
passages in the light of passages that
are perfectly plain.
11. Interpret any passage in
the Bible as those who were
addressed would have
understood it.
12. Interpret what belongs to
the Christian as belonging to the
Christian; what belongs to
the Jew, as belonging to the
Jew, and what belongs to the
Gentiles, as belonging to the
Gentiles.
13. Interpret each writer
with a view to the opinions the writer
opposed.
14. Interpret poetry as
poetry and interpret prose as prose.
15. The Holy Spirit is the
best interpreter of the Bible.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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What is
the nature of the relationship between faith and science? Can the
apparent separation between science and faith ever be eliminated? Many
scientists are convinced that evolution happened, does that mean it did?
Join the discussion.

The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a
ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven
countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this
program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered
in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship's speaker on March 8, 2013 was Dr. Charles Jackson, founder of Points of Origins Ministries, the college ministry division of Creation Truth Foundation of Dallas, Texas. “Dr. J” is an educator, a Mensan, debater in creation science, and dynamic speaker. His presentation gave a historical retrospect covering decades of genomic research that has completely reversed evolutionists’ theory, that the non-protein coding sequences of human DNA are the discarded residue of evolution (so-called “Junk DNA”).

Charles gave an inspiring testimony about how he was instantly delivered from the religion of scientism and bondage of evolution when he was saved as a highschooler. He instantly knew that the Bible was true, all of it. “I found and met the Creator, who got me and transf ormed me.” As a young college professor, Dr. J. had to walk a tight rope because of his objections to evolution theory, and was eventually fired because he didn’t agree that DNA had “junk”. This idea about “junk DNA” comes from a long history of misdire cted thinking, a history of wildly rampant egos and arrogance that goes back to the 1920’s, when evolutionists falsely claimed that so - called vestigial organs (appendix, tonsils, tailbone) were proof of evolution. Having unknown functions, these organs we re said to be useless “leftovers” from the days when we were fish and rats and worms, and had all these different organs that natural selection hasn't weeded out of us yet. This myth reflected an attitude : “Since we're so smart, and we can't figure out wha t it does, it must not have any function or be doing anything.” It was arguing from ignorance, providing an ignorant hypothesis to an Unanswered Question.

Evolution thrives in the gray areas and the uncertainties; it is cast into the darkness, and then s aid to answer the questions. The amazing part is that after the truth is found, which rejects the hypothesis, they continue in their erroneous thinking. Vestigial organs are still in the textbooks, even though now they are scientifically indefensible. The same faulty logic used for vestigial organs came into play in the 1970’s to explain why only 2% of the human genome had a known function. Eureka! Evidence for evolution: vestigial DNA, or ‘Junk’, left over from a trial and error genetic system.

The true genetic story began to unfold in the year 2000, when we first got a hint that the junk DNA had a purpose, regarding the function of the double X chromosomes in females. It was discovered that there was a DNA sequence that was controlli ng the entire operation, telling which genes to shut down, which to power up and which genes to pump out extra proteins. And it was all being coordinated by DNA sequences that weren't making proteins; they were in the junk region. It turns out that the jun k genes were not making proteins, but telling all the other genes when to do it. They were the main circuit board for the entire operation. By the year 2006, it was public knowledge that junk DNA was probably not junk. Quote Time , 10/9/06: “The non-coding region of the genome, . . is crucial."

It's a fantastically complex, crisscrossing network of gene communications that we have only scratched the surface on. Many genes overlap one another and share stretches of molecular code. A gene that controls the production of a protein - coded gene was often found on different chromosomes.

Then it was announced in 2007 that the entire genome (including Junk regions) gets transcribed, and that both DNA strands are translated. “There is an interleaved structure of overlapping segments with typically 5, 7, or 9 or more transcripts coming from one gene.” The information coding system is so complex, it means the file management system is way beyond anything we understand. The last nail in Darwin’s coffin came in the Sept. 6, 2012 issue of the NY Times (reported in this newsletter, Vol. 77) as follows: “At least 4 million gene switches turn out to play critical roles in controlling how cells, organs and other tissues behave.”

There are master control genes that don't produce any proteins, but stimulate other genes that produce proteins. Dr. John Sanford, the brilliant geneticist and a born - again creationist, says that codes are overlaying within codes and nested within other codes, and are read in both directions. What an awesome Creator!

Thanks to Dr. J. for his expertise and faithfulness.

Part II

Dr. Charles Jackson

Talk: Junk DNA

Date:
March 8th, 2013 7:00pm

RMCF's for March 8, 2013 will be Dr. Charles Jackson of the Creation Truth Foundationof Dallas Texas. Dr. Jackson has four degrees in science and education
from U. of Virginia and George Mason University. From 1980 to 2002, he
taught secondary school sciences, college biology and chemistry, and
teacher education classes. In 2003, Dr. Jackson founded Points of
Origins Ministries and began teaching, speaking, and debating in
creation science education. His emphasis has been in making the case
for the literal interpretation of the Scriptural accounts as being both
scientifically and historically true.

As a former youth pastor and schoolteacher, the work of “Dr. J” has been primarily focused toward Christian youth. Dr. J and his wife, Bonnie, are missionaries to American College Students, and have served Creation Truth Foundation in that capacity since January 2009. They are keenly interested in the liberation of Bible-believing college
students, from the delusion that their faith has been refuted by modern scientific understandings. Dr. J has crusaded against evolutionary dogma on college campuses across the mainland United States, and also in Venezuela and Peru, in lecture settings and academic debates.

The secret to the success of Dr. J’s ministry has not merely been the God-given gifts of academic and communication skills, but an ultimate dependence upon the Spirit of God, while debating the issues in
the public forum. [ “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God.”James 1:5 ]

Dr. Jackson will speak on the topic of so-called “Junk DNA”, which is definitely not junk. Join us for this edifying evening.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

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The 'missing links'—hailed as proof for evolution—are examined and debunked.

The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format.

by Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell

October 8, 2013

How did birds get their wings? This “classic major evolutionary transition” fails to take flight in the fossil record.

Evolutionists maintain that birds evolved from dinosaurs but debate
just how the transition happened. They are certain it did, of course,
because birds exist and, in their view, had to evolve from something.
Most evolutionists have maintained that this “classic major evolutionary
transition”1
began with the gradual evolution of longer forelimbs among birds’
ancestral dinosaurs. However, careful analysis of the fossil record by
McGill University paleontologist Hans Larsson and graduate student
Alexander Dececchi, published in the journal Evolution, reveals that there is no such transition evident in the fossil record.

Archaeopteryx, considered
an early “basal” bird and a transitional species between dinosaurs and
birds, like other birds and even some genuinely feathered creaturessuch
as the four-winged Microraptor, have proportionally longer
forelimbs and shorterhindlimbs than their supposed dinosaur ancestors.
The researchers found no trend among dinosaurs to account for this
apparent abrupt change in body proportions. Image: H. Raab through www.sciencedaily.comvia commons.wikimedia.org

“Our findings suggest that birds underwent an abrupt change in their
developmental mechanisms, such that their forelimbs and hind limbs
became subject to different length controls,” says Larsson.1

Abrupt Appearance

Larsson and Dececchi set out to determine from the fossil record
when and how dinosaur forelimbs evolved into wings. Instead of finding a
gradual lengthening, they found that when proportionate changes
associated with different body sizes are factored out, there really is
no such trend. The longer forelimbs, shorter hindlimbs, and long
metatarsals (foot bones that are so long in birds they look like legs)
appear abruptly in the fossil record. The skeletal characteristics of
birds, in other words, start when birds start. They have no gradually
transitioning antecedents in the rocks.

“This decoupling may be fundamental to the success of birds, the
most diverse class of land vertebrates on Earth today. The origin of
birds and powered flight is a classic major evolutionary transition,”
says Dececchi. “Our findings suggest that the limb lengths of birds had
to be dissociated from general body size before they could radiate so
successfully. It may be that this fact is what allowed them to become
more than just another lineage of maniraptorans [dinosaurs presumed
ancestral to birds] and led them to expand to the wide range of limb
shapes and sizes present in today's birds.” He adds, “Knowing where
birds came from, and how they got to where they are now, is crucial for
understanding how the modern world came to look the way it is.”

Evolutionists compare the size, shape, and proportions of body parts
in order to track the really big jumps in vertebrate evolution—like
fish evolving legs and walking out onto land, mammals de-evolving legs
and becoming whales, and of course dinosaurs evolving wings and taking
to the air as birds. “Interlimb length ratios are widely used,” the
authors write, “to derive evolutionary scenarios.”1

Extrapolating from Nothing

Having “derived evolutionary scenarios,” evolutionists then must explain how these leap...CONTINUE READING

Monday, October 7, 2013

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE, PART 3 – SEASON 3 EPISODE 11

JoinEric HovindandPaul Taylorfor the third episode of this four-part series on how life began. Did life originate from non-living organic compounds? Evolutionists have a number of ideas where life came from that are—well, pretty amusing! Today, Eric and Paul discuss how evolutionists believe that life evolved from a Primordial Soup!

Friday, October 4, 2013

Evolutionists Call New Plant Epigenetic Study 'Heresy'

New research has uncovered a hidden layer of trait-determining epigenetic information that resides outside
the DNA sequence in plants. This new discovery challenges the
evolutionary paradigms of the scientific community and their
long-standing views on how organisms adapt to changing environments at
the molecular biological level of the cell. In fact, some are even
calling this recent research "evolution heresy."1

For over the past 50 years, Darwinian evolutionists have attributed
changes in an organism's traits to the specific DNA sequences that code
for them. They never anticipated a hidden layer of epigenetic
information overlaying the DNA code to be directly involved in how a
plant interfaces with its environment.

Both plants and animals have genetic machinery that modifies the
information and function of their genomes without actually changing
their genetic code. This modification process is known as "epigenetics."
One of the best studied of these epigenetic processes involves the
chemical tagging of DNA nucleotides across the genome using methyl
groups. These "methyl tags" are attached to cytosine nucleotides in
specific patterns around genes and other expressed sequences by a
specialized group of proteins called methyltransferases.

This methyl-tagging system (methylation) plays a key role in
determining how and when genes are turned off and on along chromosomes.
The specific placement and maintenance of these methyl tags is both
dynamic and precise. When a cell divides and its DNA is replicated, the
duplication of its methyl-tag patterns is also copied, and this complex
systems engineering is only now beginning to be understood.

A recent study of the Arabidopsis plant adds to the emerging importance of epigenetics in adaptation.1
In this project, researchers tested 80 different Arabidopsis strains
that were nearly identical genetically, except for some that lacked a
gene controlling proper DNA methylation patterns. Thus, the test focused
on a large population of genetically similar plants that had both
normal and aberrant levels of methylation in their genomes. The
researchers tested the plants over several generations for flowering
time and root growth.

The goal of the study was to determine if variability in these traits
was passed along from generation to generation by genetic or epigenetic
differences. They found that the DNA sequence in the regions of the
Arabidopsis genome that control both flowering time and root length was
identical for all 80 plants and did not contribute the observed
variability. What they discovered was that the inherited variability for
these traits was associated with methylation changes!

This whole scenario presents a variety of substantial problems for evolution...CONTINUE READING

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Prof. Walter J. Veith is a university lecturer with a background in zoology, biomedical sciences, and research in archeology and history. He was also a strong believer in evolution. However, through an amazing journey He is now believer in creation. How did this happen?